Iran -- History -- To 1453 -- Historiography
Intriguing dreams, improbable myths, fanciful genealogies, and suspect etymologies. These were all key elements of the historical texts composed by scholars and bureaucrats on the peripheries of Islamic empires between the tenth and fifteenth centuries. But how are historians to interpret such narratives? And what can these more literary histories tell us about the people who wrote them and the times in which they lived? In this book, Mimi Hanaoka offers an innovative, interdisciplinary method of approaching these sorts of local histories from the Persianate world. By paying attention to the purpose and intention behind a text's creation, her book highlights the preoccupation with authority to rule and legitimacy within disparate regional, provincial, ethnic, sectarian, ideological and professional communities. By reading these texts in such a way, Hanaoka transforms the literary patterns of these fantastic histories into rich sources of information about identity, rhetoric, authority, legitimacy, and centre-periphery relations.

Khalaj (Turkic people) -- Fārs (Iran) -- Ethnic relations -- History
قشقايى در فارس ايل خلج از جيحون تا قنقرى : روابط ايلات خلج، عرب و
به کوشش مهندس عبد الرضا خسروى
Īl-i Khalaj az Jayḥūn tā Qunqurī : ravābiṭ-i īlāt-i Khalaj, ʻArab va Qashqāyī dar Fārs
bih kūshish-i Muhandis ʻAbd al-Riz̤ā Khusravī
[Khalaj tribe from Jeihoon to Ghonghori : relations between Khalaj, Arab, and Ghashghaii tribes of Fars]
"Khalaj" and "Ghongholi" are two of the twenty four ancient Turkish tribes who lived fourteen centuries ago around Oxus river 'Jeihoon) in Central Asia, near Sinkiang, and later migrated to west and south, and even ruled part of India between 1290 until 1320 AD.
This book covers part of their history written by, different Persian, Arab, Moslem and other geographers and scholars. Migration to Fars from Hamedan and Khalajestan, their relations with Arabs and Ghashghaii tribes is also considered. --- from back cover